Nice video! As a native Finn (and a mom of two sons) I recommend to use a wool scarf (or at least some kind of scarf) around you neck when hiking in Finland this weather. I hope you did not have cold! It also helps to keep fingers warm if you would use warmer mittens without "fingers". 😊 And of course when you hike outside in winter, a ponytail would be better option for ladies, to avoid frozen hair and coldness. 👍
Loks more like a walk in a park rather than wilderness. But without proper knowledge, it’s not advisable to venture in the proper wilderness anyway. Lovely video and love your enthusiasm. ❤
I realised that hadn't subscribed yet and had missed a few of your last winter's Finland episodes. So I subscribed, saw this one and went 😳🤭😍. That "wilderness" you were in brought back so many memories, great and not so great. I've visited it pretty often since it's a great little hiking spot close to the city. One September about 20 years ago I was studying at gardening school in Rovaniemi and we had a course about the local flora. We had to memorise a bunch of plants so my friend and I decided to go study in nature. We went to Vaattunkiköngäs for an overnight trip to do that. I think that the shelter (laavu) you showed here was the same, or at least a new one at the same spot, that we slept in. I think it was the coldest night of my life. I didn't have a sleeping bag, just a light blanket. It wasn't supposed to be that cold but it ended up being the first night of the fall when temperature dropped below 0°C. I didn't sleep much that night but it's a great memory now and we had fun trying to find all the different plants we had to learn. Funny that you happened to go to the same place to learn about the nature and surviving 😄.
Your guide sounds French :) Lapland has a chronic labor shortage in the winter season, there are more and more foreigners working in the tourism business there. Now just before Christmas charter planes arrive from the UK, you can hardly hear any Finnish at Lapland's airports.
Beautiful video from you again, this winter has been very gentle to us Finns. I have been visiting Rovaniemi many times, I was born in Kemijärvi city near Rovaniemi. So I am Lapland guy, but lived here in Oulu city for decades now. Have a beautiful journey in Finland and I must say that our summer is also beautiful especially Lapland's mid night time when sun never goes down 😎😎
Thank you so much!! That is awesome. We hope to get to Oulu at some point! And we really want to see the midnight sun as well! Finland has so much to offer! Thanks for your comment :)
Few years back a young man from southern Finland went to hike mid winter . His friends described him as experienced outdoorsman . It was a cold week, temps below -25 all the time. He got 8 kilometers from the last parking lot, until he bropably got exhausted hiking in knee deep snow, sat down and died.
Thats amazing!! We are so glad we went with this company since the tour group was so small! Did you get to see the Northern Lights as well? Thank you for watching and have a Merry Christmas🎄
The way I was taught to find the north star/Polaris was to locate the Big Dipper/Otava and then imagine a line running through the last two stars that form the end corners of the "cup" part of the ladle, and then follow that line upward (ie.away from horizon) for about five times the distance between the aforementioned two stars, and there's the north star
Finland is my home land to, safe and lovely nature 🙏❤️🍀🤗💕 This mos like white beard groving in trees, mens that the ear is wery clean to, it dos not grow everywhere, and if it grows some wear it's not white, the ear is not that clean then, it cean be like just a little white. Tanks for a lovely video and I'm glad you like it her in Finland 🤗💕
What a great video you did. It was completely different from most of the videos is about when visiting the northern countries, like finland sweden and norway. But it couldn´t had been that cold whrere you was. You should have tried eating dried rein deer meat instead of suoges. it is very good.
We are glad that it gave a different perspective from the normal :) It was about -10 degrees Celsius when we filmed this! It is our goal to try reindeer while we are here in Finland!! Thanks for your comment :)
Love the survival aspect. We might need to copy that idea when we go this April. Love the content and subed to keep up. Do you have a link or IG handle for the survival educator? Cheers to your travels and channel from fellow travel vloggers. - Turtle and Bear.
It was very interesting for sure! And good to know a lot of those things! We did the tour through Wild About Lapland so they should have all the info there on their Instagram :) Thanks so much for watching guys!!
I like the views and your willingness to venture to Lapland! …however-as an American of Finnish background from a wilderness island in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula who has also been to Finland you should know more about extreme weather before going for even short, guided jaunts in such places.
Wayne is right, i live above arctic circle and extreme weather is a common thing. I keep proper winter gear and some way to make fire in the trunk of my car at all times. Saved my life twice already when fuel lines froze and i was stranded long way from habitats. Never go unprepared
Pekanbaru: absolutely! My family were the only people on the island I mentioned. Our car was on the mainland, and we kept some thing to make a fire, flares, water, and emergency food in the car, and, of course, emergency blankets. When we cross today, ice we carried 20 foot cedar poles in case someone went through the ice. Generally, the ice was very thick sometimes so thick we could drive across but because of Highwinds and blizzard conditions we always had to be extremely careful. A regular feature of my childhood was rescuing people from other places who did not realize the severity of the weather could be life-threatening. It was very beautiful where I’m from, and we did have tourists, but often they had no idea how to act to protect themselves.
Pekka: so sorry for batching your name! Auto correct does not like Finnish names. I have the same problem with my relatives whose names are auto corrected to something from the correct Finnish spelling.
An important point: Finnish everyman's rights (jokamiehenoikeudet) DON'T include picking up lichen, moss or tree branches. So you shouldn't pick naava and use it to light .e.g. a fire. Of course, if you're really in danger and need to light a fire to survive you can make a fire from dry tree branches found on the ground.
Dry branches on the ground. Yeah those rarely exist.. if you are in danger you’ll skip the ground entirely and search for the closest dead tree thats still standing. That whole thing is just dry firewood. That with naava and dry bottom branches of spruce trees are like a lottery win in a real desperate situation.
That's right, naava only grows in very clean air, and unfortunately it's starting to run out for us too, even though we breathe some of the best air quality in the world. Same thing with birchbark, it must not be torn from living trees.
Walking on a trail with huts is hardly survival in the wilderness and you are in the lapland so surely there is reindeer everywhere. And lichens don't clean air, they just dislike acid rain. #beenthereonce
4:20 - (uuh, 420, yes please) ANYHOW! It really does not matter that the sun is setting when you do not tell what time it is. ;) (yeah, I know that it's around ... 2 PM .. or 3, but...). :) **edit** Oh .. at 5:38 you get to the time. Sowwy. :3
Yes, as a native Finn I can vouch for, that you are ready, although there might be Wolves, Bears (normally sleeping through winter, but some individual might be awake for some odd reason, it has known to have happened) and Wolverines running around in the deep of real wilderness of Lapland, but you can just throw those sausages far away and distract the animals running after them and at the same time run away to the opposite direction 😁 Nice to see you guys again further explore Lapland and love your positive, smiling and curious attitude to everything. You'll be alright anywhere in the world! Btw you should come back some summertime, then you can hike across or from south to north of Lapland in some beautiful sceneries on wilderness with a professional guide guiding and navigating through it - some of the most beautiful pictures have been taken from there of the "untouched" nature and animals..
Thank you so much for this incredibly encouraging comment! The forest was so beautiful and yes we absolutely want to come back in the summer! We really want to see the midnight sun! Thanks again for your comment and have a Merry Christmas🎄
@@HoseTheBeast If some people in Finland try roasting marshmallows, it doesn't make it "popular. Frying sausages is way more popular and a true Finnish thing.
@@timoterava7108 They don’t ”try” they do. And it seems to be pretty popular especially among us younger people ofcourse I don’t know how old you are. Anyway I didn’t say it was a FINNISH thing. I said it’s a pretty global thing. Started in the US sure, around 1890. These days people do it everywhere.
oh! also lichen don't have chlorophyll that every plant use in photosynthesis and are thus not green but grey. :) photosynthesis is what plants use for food. so plants kinda "eat" sunshine!
Koska monet haluavat kokea jouluna kylmää talvea. Monet eivät edes ole ikinä elämässään nähnyt lunta. Tällä lailla Suomi voi olla hyvä turisti kohde talven aikaan.
Nice video! As a native Finn (and a mom of two sons) I recommend to use a wool scarf (or at least some kind of scarf) around you neck when hiking in Finland this weather. I hope you did not have cold! It also helps to keep fingers warm if you would use warmer mittens without "fingers". 😊 And of course when you hike outside in winter, a ponytail would be better option for ladies, to avoid frozen hair and coldness. 👍
Thanks for all the amazing tips :) hahaha my hair did get very frozen!! Thankfully we were moving a lot so we didn't get too cold🙌🏼
Loks more like a walk in a park rather than wilderness. But without proper knowledge, it’s not advisable to venture in the proper wilderness anyway. Lovely video and love your enthusiasm. ❤
That is so true, we would not survive then haha! Thank you so much for watching we are glad you enjoyed it♥️
I realised that hadn't subscribed yet and had missed a few of your last winter's Finland episodes. So I subscribed, saw this one and went 😳🤭😍. That "wilderness" you were in brought back so many memories, great and not so great. I've visited it pretty often since it's a great little hiking spot close to the city.
One September about 20 years ago I was studying at gardening school in Rovaniemi and we had a course about the local flora. We had to memorise a bunch of plants so my friend and I decided to go study in nature. We went to Vaattunkiköngäs for an overnight trip to do that. I think that the shelter (laavu) you showed here was the same, or at least a new one at the same spot, that we slept in. I think it was the coldest night of my life. I didn't have a sleeping bag, just a light blanket. It wasn't supposed to be that cold but it ended up being the first night of the fall when temperature dropped below 0°C. I didn't sleep much that night but it's a great memory now and we had fun trying to find all the different plants we had to learn. Funny that you happened to go to the same place to learn about the nature and surviving 😄.
So glad you were able to find this one!! Wow that is a crazy story, thank you for sharing :)
Your guide sounds French :) Lapland has a chronic labor shortage in the winter season, there are more and more foreigners working in the tourism business there. Now just before Christmas charter planes arrive from the UK, you can hardly hear any Finnish at Lapland's airports.
He is French! And yes, we met tons of people working in Finland for the winter! Thanks for your comment and for watching :)
Amazing views! We loved the sunset colors. Didn't know about the ice clashing. Great video!
The sunset was gorgeous!!! Thanks friends!
Beautiful video from you again, this winter has been very gentle to us Finns. I have been visiting Rovaniemi many times, I was born in Kemijärvi city near Rovaniemi. So I am Lapland guy, but lived here in Oulu city for decades now. Have a beautiful journey in Finland and I must say that our summer is also beautiful especially Lapland's mid night time when sun never goes down 😎😎
Thank you so much!! That is awesome. We hope to get to Oulu at some point! And we really want to see the midnight sun as well! Finland has so much to offer! Thanks for your comment :)
Few years back a young man from southern Finland went to hike mid winter . His friends described him as experienced outdoorsman . It was a cold week, temps below -25 all the time. He got 8 kilometers from the last parking lot, until he bropably got exhausted hiking in knee deep snow, sat down and died.
Oh wow that is so sad. You have to be so careful out there!
@@JacobandJennyTravel Mid winter hiking out of the parks and established routes, can turn deadly.
You're so blessed! Such incredible beauty. Jenny between frozen hair and the blue lagoon hair will it survive??
We truly are so blessed and grateful! Hahaha I am going to need to get a haircut🤪
Hey it's John!! We did a Northern lights tour with Wild About Lapland and had John as our guide too! He was awesome!
Thats amazing!! We are so glad we went with this company since the tour group was so small! Did you get to see the Northern Lights as well? Thank you for watching and have a Merry Christmas🎄
The way I was taught to find the north star/Polaris was to locate the Big Dipper/Otava and then imagine a line running through the last two stars that form the end corners of the "cup" part of the ladle, and then follow that line upward (ie.away from horizon) for about five times the distance between the aforementioned two stars, and there's the north star
Thats a great tip! Thanks so much for your comment :)
Finland is my home land to, safe and lovely nature 🙏❤️🍀🤗💕 This mos like white beard groving in trees, mens that the ear is wery clean to, it dos not grow everywhere, and if it grows some wear it's not white, the ear is not that clean then, it cean be like just a little white. Tanks for a lovely video and I'm glad you like it her in Finland 🤗💕
Finland is such a wonderful place :) thank you so much for watching and for your comment!!
Omg it was 3 or 4 pm?? Holy cow!!
It gets dark sooo early!! Haha we miss the sun a lot 🤪
What a great video you did. It was completely different from most of the videos is about when visiting the northern countries, like finland sweden and norway. But it couldn´t had been that cold whrere you was. You should have tried eating dried rein deer meat instead of suoges. it is very good.
We are glad that it gave a different perspective from the normal :) It was about -10 degrees Celsius when we filmed this! It is our goal to try reindeer while we are here in Finland!! Thanks for your comment :)
Love the survival aspect. We might need to copy that idea when we go this April. Love the content and subed to keep up. Do you have a link or IG handle for the survival educator? Cheers to your travels and channel from fellow travel vloggers. - Turtle and Bear.
It was very interesting for sure! And good to know a lot of those things! We did the tour through Wild About Lapland so they should have all the info there on their Instagram :) Thanks so much for watching guys!!
@@JacobandJennyTravel You are welcome. I will check out their sight and keep up with your travels. Hope to keep in touch.
@@thegallivanthropologists Same here friend!!
I like the views and your willingness to venture to Lapland! …however-as an American of Finnish background from a wilderness island in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula who has also been to Finland you should know more about extreme weather before going for even short, guided jaunts in such places.
We totally agree! Thankfully we were with a guide who knew exactly what he was doing! Thanks so much for watching Wayne :)
Wayne is right, i live above arctic circle and extreme weather is a common thing. I keep proper winter gear and some way to make fire in the trunk of my car at all times. Saved my life twice already when fuel lines froze and i was stranded long way from habitats. Never go unprepared
Pekanbaru: absolutely! My family were the only people on the island I mentioned. Our car was on the mainland, and we kept some thing to make a fire, flares, water, and emergency food in the car, and, of course, emergency blankets. When we cross today, ice we carried 20 foot cedar poles in case someone went through the ice. Generally, the ice was very thick sometimes so thick we could drive across but because of Highwinds and blizzard conditions we always had to be extremely careful. A regular feature of my childhood was rescuing people from other places who did not realize the severity of the weather could be life-threatening. It was very beautiful where I’m from, and we did have tourists, but often they had no idea how to act to protect themselves.
Pekka: so sorry for batching your name! Auto correct does not like Finnish names. I have the same problem with my relatives whose names are auto corrected to something from the correct Finnish spelling.
When are you coming to Finland?
We are actually going in December!! But the videos won't be posted until January ❄️ we can't wait 🎉
@@JacobandJennyTravel I🙂
How is there so little snow in Lapland? Was this filmed a month ago?
i was thinking the same..i live near Helsinki and we have like 40 centimeters...
Yes there was not a lot of snow! It was a few weeks ago :) thanks for watching!!
I'm in Lapland, there's a ton of snow here now. It's been snowing almost every day for three weeks
Great video and Scandinacia tour. Remember Santa Claus lives in Finland merry Christmas.
Hälsningar från Villmanstrand, Finland ;)
Hahaha we just saw Santa in Finland the other day🎄😉 Thank you for watching!!
Lähde Lappeenrantaan, humppa siellä soi
An important point: Finnish everyman's rights (jokamiehenoikeudet) DON'T include picking up lichen, moss or tree branches. So you shouldn't pick naava and use it to light .e.g. a fire. Of course, if you're really in danger and need to light a fire to survive you can make a fire from dry tree branches found on the ground.
Good to know!! Thanks so much for watching :)
Heh, if you're really in life threatening danger you skip the regulations and use whatever is available around you.
Dry branches on the ground. Yeah those rarely exist.. if you are in danger you’ll skip the ground entirely and search for the closest dead tree thats still standing. That whole thing is just dry firewood. That with naava and dry bottom branches of spruce trees are like a lottery win in a real desperate situation.
That's right, naava only grows in very clean air, and unfortunately it's starting to run out for us too, even though we breathe some of the best air quality in the world. Same thing with birchbark, it must not be torn from living trees.
Walking on a trail with huts is hardly survival in the wilderness and you are in the lapland so surely there is reindeer everywhere. And lichens don't clean air, they just dislike acid rain.
#beenthereonce
We said "learning" since we were on a wilderness survival tour :) Thanks for watching!!
What was the surviving?
ÄI saw a sausage hike more or less..but not to underate, best hotdogs ever ;)
We were just learning survival tips!! The hotdogs are the best ever with Finnish mustard :) Thanks for watching :)
4:20 - (uuh, 420, yes please) ANYHOW! It really does not matter that the sun is setting when you do not tell what time it is. ;) (yeah, I know that it's around ... 2 PM .. or 3, but...). :)
**edit**
Oh .. at 5:38 you get to the time. Sowwy. :3
It was a beautiful sunset!! Thanks for watching :)
Yes, as a native Finn I can vouch for, that you are ready, although there might be Wolves, Bears (normally sleeping through winter, but some individual might be awake for some odd reason, it has known to have happened) and Wolverines running around in the deep of real wilderness of Lapland, but you can just throw those sausages far away and distract the animals running after them and at the same time run away to the opposite direction 😁 Nice to see you guys again further explore Lapland and love your positive, smiling and curious attitude to everything. You'll be alright anywhere in the world! Btw you should come back some summertime, then you can hike across or from south to north of Lapland in some beautiful sceneries on wilderness with a professional guide guiding and navigating through it - some of the most beautiful pictures have been taken from there of the "untouched" nature and animals..
Thank you so much for this incredibly encouraging comment! The forest was so beautiful and yes we absolutely want to come back in the summer! We really want to see the midnight sun! Thanks again for your comment and have a Merry Christmas🎄
@@JacobandJennyTravel Merry and Relaxing Christmas after your extensive travelling 🎄🎅
Marshamllows are not a US thing btw. Its a french invention and roasting them is pretty popular all over the world
Good to know!! Thanks for letting us know! Thanks for watching and have a Merry Christmas🎄
Not in Finland...
@@timoterava7108 yes it is😂
@@HoseTheBeast If some people in Finland try roasting marshmallows, it doesn't make it "popular. Frying sausages is way more popular and a true Finnish thing.
@@timoterava7108 They don’t ”try” they do. And it seems to be pretty popular especially among us younger people ofcourse I don’t know how old you are. Anyway I didn’t say it was a FINNISH thing. I said it’s a pretty global thing. Started in the US sure, around 1890. These days people do it everywhere.
lichen is actually VERY different from moss. lichen are fungus and mosses are plants.
almost liie saying humans and oak trees are the same thing 😅
Good to know :) thanks for your comment!
@@JacobandJennyTravel mushrooms are more related to animals than plants, thus lichen are more related to animals than plants
oh! also lichen don't have chlorophyll that every plant use in photosynthesis and are thus not green but grey. :)
photosynthesis is what plants use for food. so plants kinda "eat" sunshine!
plants are green so they can "eat" sun.
Wilderness? There is no trail maps, firepits or wooden trails in the wilderness. You were on a tourist path.
Thanks for watching anyway :) we love all the Finnish trees and snow and we truly felt like we were out in the wilderness🌲
Voi hyvänen aika!! Miksi tänne kylmään pitää talvella tulla?? Olisitte kiertänyt niitä lämpimiä maita!!🤔😊
Voi hyvänen aika. Milloin seitsemän uutiset tulee tänään?
Koska monet haluavat kokea jouluna kylmää talvea. Monet eivät edes ole ikinä elämässään nähnyt lunta. Tällä lailla Suomi voi olla hyvä turisti kohde talven aikaan.
Hahaha!! We love Finland in the winter! It is so magical to us since we never got to see snow growing up❄️
Thanks for watching Jari☺️
We are loving the snow😍❄️
Yeah. Real survive with latest Iphone, top outdoor jackcets, warm chocolate😂😂- I am not mean I am just saying.
Yeah we were really just learning survival tips from the guide :) thanks for watching!